How far can you go in just 6 days? This workshop will change the way you see/think/paint. In Caroline’s workshop you will learn techniques and theory to create powerful colorful paintings in the lush Mexican landscape, then bring what you’ve learned home with you to continue producing more powerful, colorful paintings from your home studio.

Escape to paradise and progress to more powerful paintings. Immerse yourself in a lush, tropical, relaxing setting where you will create your best work ever. Enjoy fabulous plein air painting options and the exquisite Casa open air workshop studio space with 180 degree vistas of mountains, river, village, ocean and beaches. Make color work for you and say “good-bye” to muddy colors. Bring drama to your work through unfamiliar ways to think about and work with color, painting water, landscape or whatever you want. Master Caroline Jasper’s way of painting on red canvas. Create exciting light and shadow effects. Awaken the emotive psychological power of color in your work. Manipulate perspective and lighting for dynamic depth. Following the first day’s concentration on color, each day brings another new focus and new paintings. Along with a head full of color theory master concepts, take home valuable studies and inspired new paintings of your own.

Faculty Information:
Contemporary Impressionist Caroline Jasper’s paintings are “always about the light”, says the artist. “It can dramatize the most ordinary places.” Red is her trademark. Each of her colorful landscape and water scenes begins on red ground, which serves to invigorate visual interaction against loosely applied color marks. Her color expertise plays out in all of her work, from large- scale studio canvases to small plein air paintings.

Paintings by the critically acclaimed artist have been in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries throughout the United States and her works are held in private, celebrity, public, museum, and corporate collections internationally. Author of Powercolor-Master Color Concepts for All Media, Watson-Guptill Publications, Painters’ Guide and Color Manual-Strategies for All Media, Caroline Jasper Studio Publications, and DVDs, Color Moves: Painting Water With Oils, Landscape Oil Painting on Red Ground, Dramatic Depth in Painting, and Powercolor Vol. 1,2,3, Jasper’s works and words also appear in North Light Publishers’ book by Sean Dye, Painting with Water-Soluble Oils. She has been featured in periodicals such as Focus Santa Fe, Northlight, Artists’ Magazine, Decor, and American Artist Magazine, including her article, “I See Red”.

Caroline has an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore and is a member of the American Impressionists Society. She has been high school Art Department Chair, Maryland College of Art and Design Admissions Advisory Board member, exhibition juror, gallery and college lecturer. Jasper currently teaches at art workshop venues nationwide and we are excited to welcome her as one of the Master Artists facilitating at the Casa.

Other Activities:
There will be demonstrations and organised lessons every day as well as individual and group critiques during this all inclusive week long workshop. Caroline’s lively, intensive workshops are filled with information and personal instruction. Tap her knowledge of color and share her passion for painting. Her one-on-one focus is on developing your personal vision and advancing your methods to higher levels. Her goal is to make you a better painter.

Facility Information:
M15246 is designed in "Hacienda Style" architecture, built with the jungle and mountains behind it and the river and ocean at the front door. The Large Kitchen, Dining and Living area opens with glass doors to the large veranda and the general "feel" is a unity and flow of the outside and inside. Each bedroom has its own private bath and a view of the ocean from the bed! On the bottom floor, just a few stairs from the beach, is a large garden patio with table and chairs and numerous lounge chairs for sun bathing and relaxing. The open air studio on the top floor is approximately 1,500 sq. ft. with panoramic vistas of the Boca village, river and bay. Equipped with a full bath, a "washing station", easel, tables and chairs, along with all manner of drawing materials and papers, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, brushes, glue guns and other assorted materials, unless specified for a particular workshop, the only thing a participant needs to bring is their desire for creativity.

Owned and operated by husband and wife Robert Masla and Monica Levine. Masla is an award winning internationally exhibited artist. He has been an exhibiting professional artist and educator for over 35 years; his work is in numerous discerning private and corporate collections. His teaching experience is extensive,...